The work of U.S.-American artist, prose author, and performer Constance DeJong is the main focus of an exhibition within the Kunstverein’s Archive Area. A choice of printed matter from DeJong’s private archive is on show alongside video recordings of her multimedia spoken-word performances, spanning nearly fifty years of her influential follow on the intersections of language, textual content, and picture.

For many years, DeJong has been making a case for what language (written, spoken, recited) is succesful of; how it may be employed to, as she says, construction the “motion of ideas” quite than merely function a car for delivering the conventions of prose. Studying the work of DeJong can also be all the time listening to her—an expertise of the total sensuality of her pondering. In Munich, that is conveyed by means of the presentation of 5 recordings of spoken-word performances from 1978 to 2013, that are on view along with archival materials associated to central features of DeJong’s versatile profession.

The presentation is accompanied by a newly conceived efficiency by DeJong, entitled It’s All the time Night time (2023/24), which takes place on Sunday, Could 5 at 4pm. As “the evening is the road that I stroll on,” ¹ the piece contains a dwell studying of night-themed texts, coupled with durational movies and an associative assortment of photos. By means of such audio-visual juxtapositions or alliances, DeJong’s work occupies a liminal area between writing and efficiency, together with her items often being tinged by confessional humor and critique.

at Kunstverein München
till June 30, 2024